WHAT IS HOMEOPATHY?

WHAT IS HOMEOPATHY?

  
Homeopathy (also spelled homoeopathy or homœopathy; from the Greek "like-" + páthos "suffering" ) is a form of alternative medicine. Practitioners treat patients using highly diluted preparations believed to cause symptoms in healthy individuals similar to the undesired symptoms of the person treated. German physician Samuel Hahnemann first stated the basic principle of homeopathy in 1796, known as the "law of similars." This principle is: "let like be cured by like.". Homeopathy is based on the principle that you can treat ‘like with like’, that is, a substance which causes symptoms when taken in large doses, can be used in small amounts to treat those same symptoms. For example, drinking too much coffee can cause sleeplessness and agitation, so according to this principle, when made into a homeopathic medicine, it could be used to treat people with these symptoms. Homeopathic medicines (which homeopaths call remedies) are prepared by specialist pharmacies using a careful process of dilution and succussion (a specific form of vigorous shaking). Homoeopathy is highly scientific, logical, safe, quick and extremely effective method of healing. It offers long lasting permanent cure, treating the disease from its roots, for most of the ailments. Homoeopathy is the most rational science with respect to its concepts of health, disease andcure. Homoeopathy does not treat superficially by just driving away the symptoms but heals the patient from within. Undoubtedly, homoeopathy is the medicine of future. Homoeopathy is not limited to certain diseases but is universally applicable to all kinds of diseases. It is time, the people must be made fully aware of the benefits and the scope of homoeopathy. Homoeopathy should be made more and more available to the benefit of ailing persons, as it can positively help 90% of the diseases that we have today.

ITS ORIGINS

The principle of treating “like with like” dates back to Hippocrates (460-377BC) but in its current form, homeopathy has been widely used worldwide for more than 200 years. It was discovered by a German doctor, Samuel Hahnemann, who, shocked with the harsh medical practises of the day (which included blood-letting, purging and the use of poisons such as arsenic), looked for a way to reduce the damaging side-effects associated with medical treatment. He began experimenting on himself and a group of healthy volunteers, giving smaller and smaller medicinal doses, and found that as well as reducing toxicity, the medicines actually appeared to be more effective the lower the dose. He also observed that symptoms caused by toxic ‘medicines’ such as mercury, were similar to those of the diseases they were being used to treat e.g. syphilis, which lead to the principle he described as ‘like cures like’. Hahnemann went on to document his work, and his texts formed the foundations of homeopathic medicine as it is practised today. A BBC Radio 4 documentary aired in December 2010 described Hahnemann as a medical pioneer who worked tirelessly to improve medical practice, insisting that medicines were tested before use.

HOMOEOPATHY IS BETTER SUBSTITUTE TO ANTIBIOTICS



Homoeopathy is an effective alternate to antibiotics in infectious diseases, producing no toxic side effects and bringing about rapid recovery. Homoeopathy has definite treatment for most of the infectious disease such as Sinusitis, Tonsillitis, Bronchitis, Pneumonia, Tuberculosis, Meningitis, Otitis media (pus from ear), Gastro-enteritis (vomiting-diarrhoea), Dysentery, Urinary Infections, etc

HOMOEOPATHY OFFERS BEST TREATMENT FOR VIRAL INFECTIONS

 Viral infections such as common cold, influenza, measles, chickenpox, mumps, viral hepatitis (jaundice), viral meningitis etc. are very well treated with homoeopathy. Allopathic system has no curative treatment for viral diseases except infusing antibiotics under the pretext of preventing secondary bacterial infections.

HOMOEOPATHY OFTEN AVOIDS SURGERY

Homoeopathy is not against surgery. Surgery is an art and science by itself. Surgery is called forth in the conditions where medicines have limited or no role, and where surgical aid, operation can cure or improve the condition. There are number of diseases which are labeled as 'surgical', where homoeopathy works curatively and can avoid surgery. Some such ailments are : Septic recurrent Tonsillitis, Piles, Fissure-in-ano, Fistula, Appendicitis (except gangrenous), Chronic ear discharge, Vocal cord nodules, Polyp in nose-ear, Kidney & Biliary (small) calculi, small size Uterine Fibroid, Ovarian Cysts, Warts , Corns, etc.

HOMOEOPATHY ANSWERS TO ALLERGIC DISEASES

In modern life infections have diminished and various allergic disorders are becoming popular. Homoeopathy offers very effective treatment in all allergic diseases such as various skin diseases like Urticaria, Eczema, Contact Dermatitis, as well as gives unbelievably miraculous results in Allergic Bronchitis

HOMOEOPATHY IS EXCELLENT FOR PSYCHOSOMATIC AILMENTS

The psychosomatic disorders like Migraine, Asthma, Acidity, Peptic ulcer, Allergy, Ulcerative colitis, etc. are successfully treated with homoeopathy. Homoeopathy has long recognized the psychological origin of somatic (body) symptoms. Homoeopathy always examines patient's mental make-up in all cases and remedies are given acting at the level of mind and body together, thus eradicating the disease. Perhaps no other system of medicine has such a superb approach of tackling the mind-body disorders with definite therapeutic agents. Homoeopathic remedies are capable of influencing the state of mind. They can specifically act to alleviate emotional disturbance such as excessive anxiety, irritability, insecurity, obsessive traits, undue jealousy, suspicion (paranoid) fears, depression, neurosis etc. By relieving the emotions such as above, homeopathic remedies bring about harmonious state of health. Thus homoeopathy demonstrates the possibility of the highest goal of medicine, the therapy for the person rather than for the disease alone. Homoeopathic remedies can cure mental & emotionally disturbed states.

RESEARCH

There is a growing body of research evidence suggesting that treatment by a homeopath is clinically effective, cost effective and safe.People often ask about which specific conditions can be treated by homeopaths, and as a profession we would like to see more research trials addressing this question, but funding is difficult to come by. To date, conditions for which the majority of clinical trial findings have been positive include Allergies and upper respiratory tract infections
Ankle sprain
Bronchitis
Childhood diarrhoea; chronic fatigue
Ear infections
Fibromyalgia
Hay fever
Influenza
Osteoarthritis
Premenstrual syndrome
Rheumatic diseases
Sinusitis
Vertigo